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I've always wondered- all of you that are married- what do you do with all of your decorations? I mean, you've spent all this time and money figuring out centerpieces...but then what? You have a million glass jars, vases, books, frames, mirrors, candles or whatever else. If you're recently out of school, you have a one (or two if you're lucky) bedroom apartment that I'm sure can only hold so many vases and frames in your homes.
I've always wondered- all of you that are married- what do you do with all of your decorations? I mean, you've spent all this time and money figuring out centerpieces...but then what? You have a million glass jars, vases, books, frames, mirrors, candles or whatever else. If you're recently out of school, you have a one (or two if you're lucky) bedroom apartment that I'm sure can only hold so many vases and frames in your homes.
Is it worth it? Do you ever look back and think "Look at all this money I spent on decorations for this one day...and now what do I do with them" Do you rent or buy your decorations? I know vases can be found at the dollar store, but you still have all this junk, even if it wasn't that expensive (but from my experience, the dollar store sure adds up when you're buying 100 things!
Just curious...I know its your "special day" that only happens once, but are there really zero regrets on all the money spent on things like that.
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We chose to get married close to Christmas, so A LOT of decorations we could reuse for holidays. But we didn't have many decorations, we had our reception in a gorgeous home, and the beautifully decorated for Christmas home was enough of a decoration itself.
I should mention that we didn't have a "Christmas" wedding, but I chose red and white and silver for my colors so everything coordinated with Christmas really well.
So I suggest using decorations that you can either double up on as home or holiday decor.
im planning on make most of all of my decorations. Some things are going to take a TON of time, but when the days over i'll ive really lost is a couple bucks in supplies, because craft time while watching gilmore girls is never "lost" time to me :D
And i am doing dollar store vases, but only one large one for each table- so thats only about 15 for me. overall, if i never use the vases again, it's only 15 bucks!
Luckily my mom knew a lady whose daughter had just gotten married and they bought lots of really pretty tall vases for her wedding and let me use them for free for mine!
I guess it just depends on what you want to decorate with. Renting could end up being more expensive than if you just go buy them all yourself. You are willing to look for deals, while the person you are renting from is looking to make money. You can always give them away as gifts later!
I know there are sites to sell your used vases and what not on after the wedding. I'm not married either but I've helped with friend's weddings and most of them either resell the stuff or give it away as gifts. :)
Yea, we had a ton of candles leftover. I probably threw a bunch away. But, if I had to do it all over again I would do simple, simple simple. Like mason jars with seasonal flowers.
But, my sister is good friends with a family that owns a farm and market and she just borrowed mums and pumpkins and gourds to decorate for her fall wedding. Then we just returned them all!
I don't know what happened with the vases from the wedding (my mom probably stashed them somewhere). I offered them to a friend getting married this summer, but I guess her mom had already bought things for centerpieces.
I think it's easy to get good deals for decorations. What costs a ton is the location and food. It's hard to regret spending money on that stuff (my parents don't own an acreage or anything, and you have to have food), but it does make eloping seem like a better and better idea.
I had a ton of beautiful fake flowers left over, and they kinda just got dispersed between friends & families homes. They were daisys in every color. In fact I gave a bag full to Amber Pless for her wedding. We used mason jars as our centerpieces, and my mom just used them and gave them to family who planned on making jams & pickling. Our Hanging tea lights in jars, my mom kept and is planning on just continuing to use them for outside parties.
We probably spent about $300 dollars on flowers, jars, ribbon, rocks, lights...and I can say everything is being used as deco in peoples homes or getting their use out of them.
But that is what I wanted I didn't want any on usable deco at my wedding.
We had a fall wedding with cornucopias and pumpkins as the centerpieces. We just split everything up and gave it to the family as Thanksgiving decorations.
I guess we kind of planned our centerpieces with the thought in the back of our head of what to do when we were done with them.
For our centerpieces I found some cheap clear vases online and filled them with some glass marbles in our colors and a candle. I think the total cost came to about five dollars for each centerpiece.
At the end of the night we saved the centerpieces from the head table to display in our home and encouraged our guests to take the centerpiece from the other tables. Many of our family members have commented that they enjoyed taking a piece of our wedding home with them and have displayed the vases in their homes.
I'm not married yet (3 more months!), but I'm keeping my decor tasteful & simple. We are using clear vases (hello freecycle!) with either water, cranberries & a floating candle or paper flowers. I'd like to take 1 or 2 home with us, but will encourage everyone else to bring a centerpiece home. Other than that, we won't have many decorations. Both the ceremony & reception venues are so beautiful by themselves & I don't want to take away from that!
We had an outdoor Fall wedding out in the country, so we kept our centerpieces simple. We used terra cotta pots plated with pansies and violas in coordinating colors and tied with raffia. We gave them away as parting gifts. The pots were less than $1 a piece and soil and seeds were also inexpensive.
We had an outdoor Fall wedding out in the country, so we kept our centerpieces simple. We used terra cotta pots plated with pansies and violas in coordinating colors and tied with raffia. We gave them away as parting gifts. The pots were less than $1 a piece and soil and seeds were also inexpensive.
We chose a place that provided everything for us so we didn't have to worry about it all afterwards but I know lots of people who end up using there centerpieces almost as favors and just let people take them home with them at the end of the night.
I bought everything for my centerpieces at Goodwill, totaling about $4 a table. I spray painted figurines, found cool old books, collected awesome candle holders and added in a few handmade paper flowers. It's all been in my room at my parents house because I've had nowhere to put it in our one bedroom apt, but we're fixing to move into a house and I plan on finding spots for all of them. So basically, I think it just depends on the couple. Some people would've NOT been ok with our centerpieces because there weren't real flowers or vases or mirrors and none of them looked the same. It's all just a matter of taste.
My brother (wedding) and my sister (anniversary party) sold their decorations in bulk. One on craig's list, the other not sure. But they were snapped up immediately! My other sister gave hers away as a drawings at the end of the wedding dance (she had live tetras in water vases with plants.)
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